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Students at General are treated each day to the sound of the chimes in the tower of the Chapel of the Good Shepherd. For students at the Seminary before World War I, though, the chapel tower was the scene of another special musical moment: Easter caroling. Beginning around the 1880s, students who stayed at the Close over the…

Everyone’s read “Twas the Night Before Christmas” by GTS’s own Clement Clarke Moore, but have you ever heard of “The Night After Christmas”? The 1823 publication of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” in the Troy Sentinel had readers “buzzing, laughing, marveling, and rhapsodizing” and solidified a typical “American” Christmas.[1] Because of its popularity and reach,…